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The Louisiana Department of Justice intervened in a local child pornography case Thursday morning, which resulted in the arrest of a Ruston man.

John A. Stutzman, 42, of 703 Hundred Oaks, was arrested from his residence and booked into the Lincoln Parish Detention Center on seven counts of distribution of pornography involving juveniles under the age of 13.

According to the arrest affidavit, Stutzman was under investigation when he distributed two movies and three photographs of child pornography from an electronic device at his residence to an undercover detective.

Jeffery Hankins, an associate professor of history at Louisiana Tech University, is one of the few members of the British Scholar Society, a nonprofit educational organization dedicated to Britain’s interactions in the world from the 17th century to the present, to concentrate on British history during the 1600s and 1700s.

“Most scholars write about Great Britain during the 19th century and 20th century,” Hankins said. “I write about after the American colonies split from the British Empire, when the empire really got going in settling other places such as India and China.”